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Czar Alexander II is assassinated by the terrorist group ‘People’s Will
The Czar Alexander ii was assassinated by a terrorist group known as the people's will , because they had given up on people and moved to terrorism to be able to get their message across, but it went bad because the Czars that were put in control next limited the power and the freedoms that the people and these groups held. -
Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia
Nicholas was made the Czar of Russia after his father Alexander III died in 1894. Nicolas did not want the fear or the respect that his father had previously commanded from the people. He had no political ideas except for keeping the power of being the Czar. Nicolas also Angered reformers when he made the statement their their goals were “senseless dreams”. -
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution
Right before Russia was defeated by Japan, A large number of the workers from St. Petersburg marched on the Czar's palace to present him with a long list of demands that they had created to seek a voice in the government, they were met by soldiers who fired upon the protesters killing about 130 of them. -
World War I begins
World war one started after a young serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand this escalated the already high tension between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the serbians. This event would lead to an outbreak of events that would lead to world war I. The systems of blank checks that would involve the allies of each side is why all of the countries that got involved did. They got involved because they had agreed come to help each other when they needed help. -
The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd
The february revolution was actually two revolutions compressed into one. The first revolution toppled the four hundred year old monarchy of the Czars in RUssia. The second revolution was the october revolution. The February revolution was started when women in petrograd started striking. They called the surrounding factory workers to protest and strike with them, when the military was sent in some of them refused to handle the crowds and joined the strikers. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates (gives up power)
Czar Nicholas II was forced to give up his power when a provincial government was set up in his place by the revolutionists. Many factory workers were striking and when the army was sent out to break up the strikes and get them to go back to work they wouldnt and instead started striking as well. Nicholas and his family were taken and held in the Czarskoe Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg palace but when the soviet forces feared they would soon be rescued they were sentenced to death. -
Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
Lenin was exiled for a decade after being arrested for being part of the “Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class” He and the other leaders of the union were exiled. After the exile was over lenin returned to Western Europe where he continued to practice revolutionary conducts. After the outbreak of the Russian revolution he returned to Russia to take control of the government. -
Russian civil war begins
The civil war was started when the Bolsheviks (Communists) were in power and made new rules to be able to keep a tight grip on their power so they wouldn't lose it. During some of the democratic elections Lenin the leader of the party was forced to let the elections go through but when the only 25% of the new national assembly were the Bolsheviks he forced the assembly to disband, this action caused the nation to plunge into civil war. -
Bolshevik uprising fails in Petrograd
A three day streak of fighting in the streets climaxes when the provisional government falls due to anger and frustration that is related to the continuing hardships that were being caused due to Russia’s involvement in World War one. The uprising was led by Lenin, however it eventually fails after the government gains control back and is able to stop the uprising. -
The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd
Led by the leader of the bolshevik party Vladimir Lenin the Bolsheviks made a very quick take over of the government. The bolsheviks were placed strategically in buildings and around the capitol. Within two days they had formed a brand new government with Lenin as the new leader because he was the leader of the Bolshevik party, the Bolshevik Russia was later named the USSR and was the first marxist state in the world. -
The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow
The capital of russia was moved from St.Petersburg to Moscow where it still currently is the capital because Vladimir Lenin once he had taken control of the government and pulled out of World War one was fearing a possible and likely foreign invasion so he moved the capital back to Moscow where it still currently is. -
The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
The Bolshevik Party formed an army known as the Red Army in February to get ready for the upcoming civil war. When they created the army they also changed the name of their party to the Communist Party. The 7th congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, also known as the Extraordinary 7th Congress, During this congress the Bolsheviks changed the name of the party to the Communist Party to be able to include the Word Communist in their name. -
Russia withdraws from World War I
Russia withdrew from world war one when the new government of Soviet Russia and the Central powers signed a treaty that would end Russia’s participation. Russia’s new leader Lenin pulled out of world war one to be able to focus better on the domestic problems that were occuring in russia like being able to maintain power in the government. -
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
Nicholas II and his entire family were executed during the starts of the leadership of Lenin and his Red Army during the first stages of war communism. The police were given permission to arrest and execute anyone that they found or thought were enemies of the communist party. Nicholas was executed, while others who were thought to be enemies were held in prisons or harsh prison camps. -
Russian civil war ends
The russian civil war ended when the Reds or the communist party defeated the whites and the greens and they joined all three republics together to form the USSR. The reds had to deal with threats from nationalists during the civil war they were able to deal with this by instead of giving them their freedom and land setting up six self governing soviets which would do the job of that. -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
The Reds also known as the communists had defeated the whites who were comprised of Russians who wanted to return to the monarchy and Russians who supported the provisional government and the greens who were peasants who wanted their land, and joined the republics that they were together with russia to form the USSR. The USSR was the successor to the Russian empire and it was also the first country in the world to be based completely on marxist socialism. -
Lenin dies
Lenin died at the age of 53 having suffered three major strokes. The strokes were caused by damage done to his body during an attempted assassination. The assassin shot at Lenin three times hitting him twice once in the jaw and once in the neck. Lenin would go on to have strokes the first of which limiting his speech and movement, the second would force him to retire from politics and the third on caused im to lose his ability to speak furthermore and have to re learn to write.
